A Fistfull of News
Been quite busy at work these days, as well as playing the host to my parents during the holidays. I did keep up with what was happening around the world, thanks to my G1 (I love this gadget!), and wanted to share a few nice nuggets.
- First of all, the birth of Lotte, the online translation editor! This new feature will help the Transifex guys deliver a fatal 1,2 punch combination in the fight against bad translation tools and processes!
- As if Dimitris and his crew didn’t have enough on their plate (I tell you, they have macchiato running through their veins), a new fledgling web portal portal for translators is in the makings. Think of a place where translators can offers their skills to projects in need of translators and you can see where this could lead.
- Still speaking of translations, hanging out on #transifex on Freenode I picked up that the Mercurial guys really like Transifex and what it has to offer their current legion of translators! Sounds like some experimenting may take place soon between these 2 projects (I’ll keep my fingers crossed!).
- On a different subject, I have started working on a Snowy Appliance yesterday and will have something done and consumable by this weekend. Don’t know what snowy is? Then check Paul Cutler‘s blog post and the links within it. Want to lend me a hand? Ping me on IRC, email, comment here, Twitter, etc, etc.
- I’m running this year for the GNOME Board of Directors! Take a look at the list of candidates and if you’re a GNOME Foundation member, remember to vote! If you’re not a member, what are you waiting for?
- My 35th birthday is fast approaching (June 8th actually) and I will be updating my wishlist juuuuust in case someone feels like surprising me, hint hint
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May 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
kick ass.
The snowy appliance is interesting.
I’d really like to see the people behind snowy take a long view and think about generalizing what they are doing into a collaboration server using a general purpose collaboration API that lots of applications can use..not just tomboy. So we can keep a rather stable server instance running locally on a corporate network while new applications add capabilities to sync to that server using a general purpose API.
What i really hate to see is a situation where we need to run a new server-side code for each application that gains network sync ability. I’d like to keep a long lived corporate network server instance running…and just have the application clients which make use of it evolve on their own much faster time scales.
-jef
June 1st, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi OG
How are things my friend. I had a little Chat with Mr. Vaysse at his house last night. He has a small programming project that he would like to get his friends envolved in. That’s when your name came up. Any way it would be good to here from you. We have a idea you may be interested in. I still have the same number at lundbeck as before. Yelena and Jim are still here also. Hope to here from you soon.
-Mel